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Eight Aspects of Brahmacarya

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on September 23, 2010 at 12:34pm

(Sridhara Svami, the Bhagavatam commentator, also quoted in Daksa smrti)

Discussion with evidences - Maha-mantra Das

(1) smaranam - One should not think of the opposite sex. One should think of Krsna and His service as given by the spiritual master. Memorize favorite passages or verses from the sastras.

(SB 7.15.36 purport) "In our Krsna consciousness movement it is advised, therefore, that the sannyasis and brahmacaris keep strictly aloof from the association of women so that there will be no chan

Brahmacarya

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on September 23, 2010 at 12:31pm

Brahmacarya, or celibate student life, is the first spiritual stage (asrama) in the varnasrama system. It lasts from 5th to 25th year of of one's life and during this time the brahmacari lives with his spiritual master and learns the theory and practice of the Vedic life recorded in the revealed scriptures.

After this time he is allowed to marry and enter the stage of householder life (grhastha asrama). Some brahmacaris, however, remain celibate the whole life.

Brahmacarya is defined as an absten

कान्हा तुझे मै छोड़ नही सकती

Posted by Priya Sakhi Devi Dasi on September 23, 2010 at 12:00pm

जाने क्यों संसार के इन बंधनों में

आत्मा को घुटन-सी होती है.

भौतिक बातें तो दिलोदिमाग

को जल्दी-ही थका जाती हैं

ये माया हमारी भक्ति को

परख रही है .

या प्रभु के प्रेम से

विरक्ति उपज रही है.

दुविधा खड़ी हो जाती है

हर एक कदम उठाने पर.

कही ये प्रभु से दूर न जाए

कुछ भी न बचे आने तक.

जो भी हो संभालना मुश्किल है

दोनों को साथ ले चलना मुश्किल है.

दोनों को कैसे मै दिल से लगाऊं

मेरे पास एक -ही तो दिल है.

कान्हा तुझे मै छोड़ नही सकती

और दूसरे को भी साथ ले चलना है.

मेरे वश में कुछ भी न रहा अब

अब जो भी है तुझे ही करना है.

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Practice ignoring your negative thoughts

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 23, 2010 at 11:52am

Hare Krishna Friends,

It has been estimated that the average human being has around 60,000 thoughts per day. That's a lot of thoughts. Some of these thoughts are going to be positive and productive. Unfortunately, however, many of them are also going to be negative—angry, fearful, pessimistic, worrisome. Indeed, the important question isn't whether or not you're going to have negative thoughts — you are—it's what you choose to do with the ones that you have.

In a practical sense, you really have o

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Akama and Sakama Devotees

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 23, 2010 at 11:49am

Sakama Devotees

One who is in distress

One who need Money

One who is inquisitive comes to Krsna

Wise come to me (someone wants to know the Lord as a philosopher can know Him)

Akama devotees

Akama and Sakama Devotees

Those who approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead with desires for material enjoyment are called sakama, and those devotees who have no material desires for sense gratification but serve the Supreme Lord out of spontaneous love for Him are called akama. Sakama devotees are divided into

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Moksha Kama

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 23, 2010 at 11:47am

The devotees, the jnanis, who are known as moksa-kama, and the karmis, who are known as sarva-kama, are all aspiring to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu. Even when one performs yajnas, as stated here (kriya-kalapaih), he should always remember that the demigods are but agents of the Supreme Lord. Actually the worshipful Lord is Visnu, Yajnesvara. Thus even when different demigods are worshiped in the Vedic and Tantric sacrifices, the actual goal of sacrifice is Lord Visnu.

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 7

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 23, 2010 at 11:44am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 7
kamam dahanti krtino nanu rosa-drstya
rosam dahantam uta te na dahanty asahyam
so 'yam yad antaram alam pravisan bibheti
kamah katham nu punar asya manah srayeta

kamam -- lust; dahanti -- chastise; krtinah -- great stalwarts; nanu -- but; rosa-drstya -- by wrathful glance; rosam -- wrath; dahantam -- being overwhelmed; uta -- although; te -- they; na -- cannot; dahanti -- subjugate; asahyam -- intolerable; sah -- that; ayam -- Him; yat -- because; antaram

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Follow the sastras

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 23, 2010 at 11:30am

Follow the sastrasSrila Prabhupada gave a class on Caitanya-caritamrta Madhya-lila 20.395 at 7:30 a.m. in his room. Construction work prevented the use of the temple room.The verse appropriately got us in the mood of Janmastami, for in it Lord Caitanya explains to Sanatana Gosvami the eternal nature of Lord Krsna's pastimes. "Nitya-lila means everlasting pastimes," Prabhupada told us. "Our lila, material, that is not nitya-lila. Whatever I'm acting by this body, it is not nitya; it is temporary.

Fire Strikes ISKCON Again

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on September 23, 2010 at 10:56am

Fire Strikes ISKCON Again

First we lost Aindra Prabhu to fire, then a fiery explosion took out our Leicester Temple in the UK. Now, a massive wild fire has engulfed Pandavas Paradise, our 1000 acre Hare Krishna retreat center in the grassy plateaus of central Brazil (Chapada dos Veadeiros).

Though a common occurence at this time of the year, this wild fire was allied with a powerful wind. We are coming to the end of the dry season here, it is very dry and we haven’t had a drop of rain for abou

Ratha Yatra Festival in Colombo

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on September 23, 2010 at 10:00am

Ratha Yatra Festival in Colombo

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) will conduct its annual Ratha Yatra program for the 12th consecutive year.

The chariot carrying the deities of Lord Jagannath, Baladev and Subadhra will leave the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple at 188, New Chetty Street, Colombo 13 on September 22 around 7 am and the chariot will make its way back to the temple on the same day around 2 pm and prasadam will be distributed to all the devotees.

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KAMSA, THE MIGHTY SCHIZOPHRENIC!

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on September 22, 2010 at 5:30pm

Friday, September 03, 2010

By Damodara Pandita dasa

SCHIZOPHRENIA is a mental disorder characterized by a disconnection between one’s thoughts, feelings and actions. ‘Skhizo’, in Greek, means split and ‘phren’ means mind – the mind is split between discordant thoughts, emotions and activities. Victims ofschizophrenia show some common traits – mistrust, suspicion, lack of reasoning power and selfish tendencies!

Once, the proud and evil-minded Kamsa willingly undertook to escort his newly wedded s

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What Abortionists Don't Know.

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 22, 2010 at 1:49pm

What Abortionists Don't Know.

76/12/12 Hyderabad, Bhagavad-gita 2.12

Pradyumna (leads chanting, etc.):

na tv evaham jatu nasam
na tvam neme janadhipah
na caiva na bhavisyamah
sarve vayam atah param
[Bg. 2.12]

"Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be."

Prabhupada: This is a very important verse. The modern scientists, philosophers, they say that after finishing this body, we no more exist, finished, everything finished. Thi

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Should patiently prosecute.

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 22, 2010 at 1:48pm

Should patiently prosecute.

Bhagavad-gita 6.24

TRANSLATION

One should engage oneself in the practice of yoga with undeviating determination and faith. One should abandon, without exception, all material desires born of false ego and thus control all the senses on all sides by the mind.

PURPORT

The yoga practitioner should be determined and should patiently prosecute the practice without deviation. One should be sure of success at the end and pursue this course with great perserverance, not becoming

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Lack of devotion short of Perfection

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 22, 2010 at 1:45pm

Lack of devotion short of Perfection

The Mundaka Upanisad (3.2.2) confirms the statements of this verse: kaman yah kamayate manyamanah sa karmabhir jayate tatra tatra. "Even a thoughtful renunciant, if he maintains any worldly desires will be forced by his karmic reactions to take birth again and again in various circumstances." Philosophers and yogis work hard to become free from birth and death, but because they are unwilling to surrender their proud independence, their meditations are devoid o

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Bewildered by false ego.

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 22, 2010 at 1:44pm

Bewildered by false ego.

Bhagavad-gita 16.18

TRANSLATION

Bewildered by false ego, strength, pride, lust and anger, the demon becomes envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in his own body and in the bodies of others, and blasphemes against the real religion.

PURPORT

A demoniac person, being always against God's supremacy, does not like to believe in the scriptures. He is envious of both the scriptures and of the existence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is caused

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Srila Prabhupad on Dogs

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 22, 2010 at 1:42pm

Srila Prabhupad on Dogs

He said there is nothing lower than a dog, yet even dogs have one good
quality -- faithfulness. And he told me a story about a man, a dog and a
baby: The man had to leave his house for a few minutes, so he placed his
baby on a bed and left his dog in the room to guard it. When he returned a
short while later, the room was empty. He was horrified to find a trail of
blood leading out into the garden. Following it, he suddenly came upon the
dog running out from the bushes, its mout

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Real Retirement

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 22, 2010 at 1:41pm

Real Retirement

After breakfast Giriraja prabhu discussed with Srila Prabhupada the requirements for men who desire to live with us after they retire.

Prabhupada said the main thing is that they may not live with their wife and they must attend our programs. "Retirement does not mean everything nil. It means to retire from material life to increase spiritual life." He offered his own example of becoming more and more active in preaching work after his retirement. So anyone who wishes to come and l

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 6

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 22, 2010 at 1:41pm

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 6
dharmasya daksa-duhitary ajanista murtyam
narayano nara iti sva-tapah-prabhavah
drstvatmano bhagavato niyamavalopam
devyas tv ananga-prtana ghatitum na sekuh

dharmasya -- of Dharma (the controller of religious principles); daksa -- Daksa, one of the Prajapatis; duhitari -- unto the daughter; ajanista -- took birth; murtyam -- of the name Murti; narayanah -- Narayana; narah -- Nara; iti -- thus; sva-tapah -- personal penances; prabhavah -- strength; drstva

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All are not Pure Devotees

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 22, 2010 at 1:40pm

There are different types of men in this world, not all of them pure devotees. Some are karmis, desiring to acquire vast wealth. There are also persons who are only after reputation. Some desire to be elevated to the heavenly planets or to go to Dhruvaloka, and others want to please the demigods to get material profits. Herein it is recommended by Maitreya that every one of them can hear the narration about Dhruva Maharaja and thus get their desired goal. It is recommended that the devotees (aka

Difference between self realisation and God Realisation?

Posted by lalit singh on September 22, 2010 at 10:43am

Hare Krishna devotees, I want to know if there is difference between self realisation and God realisation ? If yes, what is that ? How does a God realised person differed from Self realised? which comes first - self realisation or God realisation?

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Eight Aspects of Brahmacarya

Brahmacarya

कान्हा तुझे मै छोड़ नही सकती

Practice ignoring your negative thoughts

Akama and Sakama Devotees

Moksha Kama

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 7

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Follow the sastras

Fire Strikes ISKCON Again

Ratha Yatra Festival in Colombo

KAMSA, THE MIGHTY SCHIZOPHRENIC!

What Abortionists Don't Know.

Should patiently prosecute.

Lack of devotion short of Perfection

Bewildered by false ego.

Srila Prabhupad on Dogs

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Real Retirement

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 6

All are not Pure Devotees

Difference between self realisation and God Realisation?

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